FMCSA Petitions for Rulemaking (Open Petitions)
FMCSA Petitions for Rulemaking
(49 CFR 389.31)
Any interested person may petition the Administrator to establish, amend, interpret, clarify, or withdraw a rule. Each petition filed must:
- Be submitted in writing by mail to the Administrator, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001 or filing the petition as a comment, electronically at www.regulations.gov, using the general petitions for rulemaking docket FMCSA-2021-0054;
- Set forth the text or substance of the rule or amendment proposed, or specify the rule that the petitioner seeks to have interpreted, clarified or withdrawn, as the case may be;
- Explain the interest of the petitioner in the action requested;
- Contain any information, data, research studies, and arguments available to the petitioner to support the action sought.
Petitions received will be logged on the table below and categorized by "open" and "closed" petitions. This display is required by Section 5204 of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act).
Open Petitions for Rulemaking
The following is a list of petitions for rulemakings that are pending a decision from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration or granted and awaiting further action.
Filing Organization: Freight Validate/Collaborative Rating Systems LLC and Truckstop.com
Date Agency Received Petition: 12/01/2025 Petition: Amend 49 CFR Parts 365, 371, and 390 to clarify enforceability and align operational control standards with existing safety, hazardous materials, and anti-coercion mandates.
Filing Organization: Freight Validate/Collaborative Rating Systems LLC and Truckstop.com
Date Agency Received Petition: 12/01/2025
Petition: Petition for rulemaking to Strengthen identity Verification and Ownership Accountability in FMCSA Registration and Operating-Authority Transfers.
Filing Organization: Freight Validate/Collaborative Rating Systems LLC and Truckstop.com
Date Agency Received Petition: 12/01/2025
Petition: Amend 49 CFR Parts 365, 371, and 390 to clarify enforceability and align operational control standards with existing safety, hazardous materials, and anti-coercion mandates.
Filing Organization: Road Dawg Compliance & Accountability Initiative
Date Agency Received Petition: 12/01/2025
Petition: Petition requesting establishment of "Bona Fide Independent Dispatch Agent" under 49 CFR 371 and adoption of the compliance accountability matrix standard.
Filing Organization: Small Business Transportation Coalition
Date Agency Received Petition: 05/30/2025
Petition: Amend 49 CFR 371 to include a new regulation that prohibits brokers from contractually requiring a motor carrier to show evidence of having undergone roadside inspections.
Filing Organization: Alpha Drivers Transportation, LLC
Date Agency Received Petition: 08/05/2025
Petition: Petition to amend or clarify the definition of the term "Broker" in 49 CFR 371.2.
There are no Part 382 Petitions for Rulemaking to report.
Filing Organization: Kevin Winebarger
Date Agency Received Petition: 02/19/2026
Petition: Amend 49 CFR 383 and 384 to require additional safeguards for applicants who obtain their base (non-commercial) driver's license via foreign reciprocity before pursuing a commercial driver's license.
Filing Organization: DOT Ready
Date Agency Received Petition: 09/8/2025
Petition: Amend 49 CFR 383 and 49 CFR 391 to enhance the commercial driver's license legal status and identity verification processes.
Filing Organization: Texas Department of Public Safety
Date Agency Received Petition: 12/17/2024
Petition: Amend 49 CFR 383.23 to prohibit Mexican Licencia de Conductor and Canadian issued commercial driver's licenses (CDLs) from reciprocal recognition when engaged in intrastate commerce outside a driver's jurisdiction of domicile. In addition, the petition requests that Mexican and Canadian drivers can apply and test for a non-domiciled CDL in the United States with proper work authorization and legal standing.
Filing Organization: Small Business Transportation Coalition
Date Agency Received Petition: 09/08/2025
Petition: Petition to require Commercial Driver's License-issuing states to use the Federal ID.me identification system in connection with applications for Commercial Driver's Licenses to verify citizenship or permanent legal residency.
Filing Organization: RV Industry Association
Date Agency Received Petition: 05/05/2025
Petition: Amend 49 CFR 383.91(a)(1) and (a)(2) to include an exception for personnel transporting new recreational vehicles prior to retail sale.
Filing Organization: Small Business Transportation Coalition
Date Agency Received Petition: 06/02/2025
Petition: Repeal or amend 49 CFR 383.133(b)(3) to include a requirement for the knowledge test to be administered in English with no assistance from an interpreter or use of an interpreting device.
Filing Organization: Kevin Winebarger
Date Agency Received Petition: 02/19/2026
Petition: Amend 49 CFR 383 and 384 to require additional safeguards for applicants who obtain their base (non-commercial) driver's license via foreign reciprocity before pursuing a commercial driver's license.
Filing Organization: Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance
Date Agency Received Petition: 10/28/2025
Petition: Amend Title 49 CFR 385.4(b)(2) to reflect the updated "Operational Policy 4: Inspector Training and Certification." revised Sept. 25, 2025.
Filing Organization: Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA)
Date Agency Received Petition: 12/03/2024
Petition: Amend the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations pertaining to Matters Incorporated by Reference by updating the reference to CVSA’s “Operational Policy 4: Inspector Training and Certification” in 385.4(b)(2) to reflect the newest edition, which was revised on Sept. 12, 2024.
There are no open Part 387 Petitions for Rulemaking to report.
There are no Part 389 Petitions for Rulemaking to report.
Filing Organization: FreightValidate/Collaborative Rating Systems LLC and Truckstop.com
Date Agency Received Petition: 12/01/2025
Petition: Amend 49 CFR Parts 365, 371, and 390 to clarify enforceability and align operational control standards with existing safety, hazardous materials, and anti-coercion mandates.
Filing Organization: AWM Associates, LLC.
Date Agency Received Petition: 08/08/2024
Petition: Petition to amend 49 CFR 390.3T and 397.2 regarding the transportation of hazardous materials.
Filing Organization: Small Business Transportation Coalition
Date Agency Received Petition: 05/27/2025
Petition: Petition to decertify the State's authority to issue commercial driver's licenses if not compliant with the English language proficiency policy.
Filing Organization: Independent Recruiters for Class A Drivers Nationwide
Date Agency Received Petition: 03/25/2026
Petition: Amend 49 CFR 391.23 to update the Verification of Employment and Safety Performance history process by Standardizing Electronic Formats, Shortening the Response Window and Implementing Tiered Enforcement.
Filing Organization: *National Association of the Deaf*
Date Agency Received Petition: 03/14/2019
Petition: Rescind the requirement for interstate drivers of commercial motor vehicles to be able to hear. Request that the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration repeal the regulatory language or, in the alternative, obtain clarification on non-discriminatory terms in 49 CFR 391.11 and 383.133.
Filing Organization: Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance
Date Agency Received Petition: 10/22/2025
Petition: Petition to amend 49 CFR 391.11(b)(2) to place driver's Out of Service if they do not meet the English language proficiency requirements.
Filing Organization: U.S. Custom Harvesters, Inc.
Date Agency Received Petition: 03/24/2025
Petition: Petition for clarification of the applicability of regulations in 49 CFR 391.2, 383.23(a)(2) and 381.153(a)(10)(vii) to the custom harvesting industry.
Filing Organization: Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance Date Agency Received Petition: 4/10/2024
Petition: Amend 49 CFR 392.4, Drugs and other substances, to include language that prohibits a driver who has been cited and issued an out-of-service order under 49 CFR 392.4 from violating that out-of-service order.
Filing Organization: Intelligent Motorist Alert Messaging System
Date Agency Received Petition: 08/18/2025
Petition: Petition to amend 49 CFR 392.22(b)(1)(2), for autonomous commercial vehicles.
Filing Organization: Action Water Sports of Traverse City MI
Date Agency Received Petition: 05/5/2026
Petition: Request for clarification on 49 CFR 393.43(a) regarding "breakaway and emergency braking systems for trailers equipped with brakes.
Filing Organization: Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance
Date Agency Received Petition: 03/25/2026
Petition: Requested to amend 393.87 Warning flags on projecting loads to exclude rear mounted forklifts with functional lamps.
Filing Organization: International Institute of Towing and Recovery
Date Agency Received Petition: 03/02/2025
Petition: Requests that FMCSA amend 49 CFR 393.128 to require a minimum of four separate points of securement to the vehicle being transported.
Filing Organization: Small Business in Transportation Coalition
Date Agency Received Petition: 11/1/2025
Petition: Request reconsideration of the Agency's denial dated January 14, 2022, of a retrospective review of 49 CFR 395 Subpart B Electronic Logging Devices.
Filing Organization: Federation of Professional Truckers
Date Agency Received Petition: 12/1/2025
Petition: Petition for rulemaking to modernize Hours-of-Service regulations under the 49 CFR 395.3(a)(3) and 395.3(c) by eliminating the 11-Hour Driving Limit and replacing the 34-Hour restart with a 24-Hour circadian restart.
Filing Organization: AWM Associates, LLC
Date Agency Received Petition: 4/27/2026
Petition: Petition to remove 49 CFR Part 395.3(b)(1) and Part 395.5(b)(1).
Filing Organization: AWM Associates, LLC
Date Agency Received Petition: 12/08/2024
Petition: Amend 49 CFR 396.9 inspection of motor vehicles and intermodal equipment in operation, be revised to add verbiage that the driver is required to assist the inspector with the vehicle inspection.
Filing Organization: AWM Associates
Date Agency Received Petition: 08/08/2024
Petition: Petition to amend 49 CFR 397.2 and 390.3T regarding the transportation of hazardous materials.
FMCSA
Larry Minor
Associate Administrator of Policy Larry.minor@dot.gov
Last updated: Friday, May 15, 2026